Islamic Perspectives on Science

Knowledge and Responsibility

By: Ali Unal

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"Islamic Perspectives on Science" is a collection of articles by celebrated scholars of the social and natural sciences. Each article is an attempt to unveil the reality that Islam is a religion which encourages and supports scientific research, provided that it serves man's fundamental need of understanding and achieving meaningfulness in our existence.

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Preface	p. vii
Islam and Science: An Overview	p. 1
Stating the problem	p. 1
Identifying the issue	p. 2
Science is no stranger to the Muslim world	p. 4
Muslim scientists in history	p. 7
The science-religion conflict: Reality or myth?	p. 8
Science in the Qur'an	p. 11
Muslims and problems posed by modern science	p. 16
The viability of an Islamic science	p. 21
A possible meeting point	p. 23
Conclusion	p. 25
Additional sources	p. 27
Science and Religion	p. 28
The civilization that Islam created	p. 28
Science and the modern scientific approach	p. 32
Conflict between religion and science	p. 36
Does the Qur'an contain everything?	p. 41
The concept of science and technology	p. 45
Two different fields for science and religion?	p. 49
Cartesian dualism	p. 49
Nature displays Divine Unity	p. 52
What does the command Read! Signify?	p. 56
Does the Qur'an allude to scientific developments?	p. 58
Examples	p. 61
Why we refer to science and scientific facts	p. 73
Causality and the Qur'anic Worldview	p. 78
What a Falling Stone Means	p. 87
The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics	p. 93
Religion and Science: Shared Responsibilities	p. 99
The goal of science	p. 99
Science without religion, religion without science	p. 100
Science and exploitation	p. 103
The Islamic approach to science	p. 104
"Believe in order to understand"	p. 107
A mentality of domination	p. 110
A united field theory	p. 112
References	p. 113
Worldwide Corruption by Scientific Materialism	p. 114
Mathematics is Real: Why and How?	p. 119
The language of numbers	p. 119
What flowers reveal	p. 122
Notes	p. 124
Index	p. 133
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